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How the Chicken Crossed the World: The Story of the Bird that Powers Civilisation
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The Battery: How Portable Power Sparked a Technological Revolution
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The Planet Remade: How Geoengineering Could Change the World
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The Skull Measurer’s Mistake: And Other Portraits of Men and Women Who Spoke Out Against Racism
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Superconductivity: A Very Short Introduction
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I Have America Surrounded: The Life of Timothy Leary
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In Pursuit of the Travelling Salesman
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A Burglar's Guide to the City
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The KLF: Chaos, Magic and the Band who Burned a Million Pounds
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Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
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Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do and What It Says About Us
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Vermeer's Hat: The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World
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Hunger: An Unnatural History
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Sun in a Bottle: The Strange History of Fusion and the Science of Wishful Thinking
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The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-Line Pioneers
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Aspirin : The Remarkable Story of a Wonder Drug
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Money: The Unauthorised Biography
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Severed: A History of Heads Lost and Heads Found
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The Greatest Bleeding Hearts Racket in the World: Irish Hospitals Sweepstakes
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Tambora: The Eruption That Changed the World
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The Phone Book: The Curious History of the Book That Everyone Uses But No One Reads
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Red: A History of the Redhead
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A History of the World in 6 Glasses
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Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas
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Rome, Inc.: The Rise and Fall of the First Multinational Corporation
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The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
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Salt: A World History
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The Double Helix
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Life at the Extremes: The Science of Survival
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BuckyWorks: Buckminster Fuller's Ideas for Today
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